Van sickle



A. WASHBURN 8v J. N. VAN SICKLE. MACHINE P011 DRESSING FBATHBRS.

No. 65,782. Patented June 11, 1867.

@nitrjf tutes .j lgtttizntv ALVAH *WA'sHB-URN 'YAND JAMES -NQLV'AN slome, 0F. Manuvie01,110.r

` Lett-ers .P ate'nt No. 65,782; dated June 11, 1867. I l 4 I I IMPnovED MAGHNB frosnssmo PBATH'BRSQ To .ALL WH'OM '1'1 MAY Colvcrlnrr: Be ift-known that we, ALV/m lVAsnnUhN and JAMES VAN Srcxilc; of. Medina, in the county of Mcdina, and Stutelef Q'hiofllave invented ii new and useful FeatherfDressiug Machine and 'we do hereby declare thel `fol1owing to a full,'clear,nn.d ex actd csription of the s arne, suicient to enable' one sk illedin the art t S\vhic h A the'inveution appertainsto make use of it, reference being had to the accompanying'(lraxviiigs, forming: a port of this specification, and in which- I i Figurel .is a side elcvation. Figure 2 is au axial section.4 l Figure 3 isa transverse section.

In this machine the feathers are treated with steam in a chamber 'rotating o n a' vhorizlmtal ait-is 'ther-stucchi.: issues iu jets into' the-feathers until vtheyr'ar-e suiicientiy wetted, when is shut off from the feather-chambery: the ventilators are opened and the feather-saro dried'bythe heat of the steam pipes. The novelty of theinveutiou consists'i'n the arrangements .forthe iiiduetion'of'stealu andthe eductioxi ofthe water of condeusatioufrom the steam pi'pes. In-the drawingvsyfv n A` is a' barrel or'other receptaclmiiiountedby g'udgcons' upon s tandmdsB. One of the journals is'h'oilov, for the passageef steam into the. central pipe.C, bra-nch pipes D D,'and the insidesurface'ot the-vessl'. .Thepressure and consequent heat of'the steam ispiwayspresent inthepipes C D Efbut is onljadhlitted'irito the interior F as it is required. This latter, thatis, the suffusion with steam offthc interior RWs-accomplished bylturning the faucets G, which fopen'the connection-bypipes M betweeirthe pipes E-nud thepcrfu'rated pipe-l H, whence the steam issues' in jets into the feathers contained. in the receptacleE asl is indicated by red lines in ligs. 2 and 3. i i Y The feathers are introduced at the doorway I'Qand Aafter being subjected' to the steam bathfor a suicicnt' time the faucets G are t'urned o sc that the steam nolonger issues intothe interiori '-The shuttcrsJ a1fe \`:it l l i d r/awn so' as to expose the'perforated panels K which admit the exit ol' steam, the-inferior being constantly heated by thel steam inthe pipes C 'D 'E",.th'e machine' continuing to revolve and tumbling the'feathm-s over and- -over as they become gradually dried. I

As a in eans of withdrawing the waterof condensation from thejfp'ipcs we have so arranged itghs shown in fig. 3, that three 'of the tubes D project into the central tube C; not' in to the tubes while thc'otler.. tube, D', does notproject into the central tube C, but does project into the .tube E, with which it is connected. As the machine revolves, the waterinthe tube C-nd's'i'tsway through tube D jnto tube E",`the'augcs 'of the tubesD projecting. into C preventing the passage ofswate'rinto them'.- .The water' beingthus led Ainto tuheE is prevcnt'egl-from'- flowing back by thel Iprojecting flange of the-pipe D', a'nd when it: hasoccumuhited is withdrawn by mea'n's'of the 'faucet L. v i I Having described our'invention, what we claim therein as new, and desire'to secure by Letters Patent, isf- Thev arrangement ofthe pipes' Mffaucets G, and perforated fpipes H, substantially. ars-described.

,We also' claim 4the arrangementjshown -in:g. 3, whereby, during the. rotation of theA nmchinc, the wuter oficondensation isled into a single pipe, from whichit is discharged by faucet Iig-substantially as described. f

The above specification of ourinvention'signedI by as .ths lSthday of February, 1862 i 1 A. WASHmim.'1 i

, I J. NX'VANQSICKLE.-

Witnesses Llt A, WrIzLIMs, 'Annan DAvIs. 

